From the editors: “Our Subject being literature—this volume is intended as a handbook to the study of literature. It contains two parts: first, a collection of important essays analyzing literature and some of the problems of literary study; and second, a dictionary of literary terms. In the first part, critics examine literature in general, then fiction, drama, land lyric poetry, and then such problems as the relevance of the artist’s intention and of his beliefs; in the second part, such words as ‘literature, short story, comedy, sonnet and the fairly elaborate vocabulary, such as ‘  point of view, farce, sestet which have developed to talk about these things are defined,”